Didn’t you sometimes wish you had a ‘superkill’; a kill that kills all processes with a certain text in it. Killall is supposed to do that, but actually never does, as you have to type the complete command which is a pain. So I usually type:

ps auxw|grep -i apache|awk ‘{print $2}’|xargs kill -9

in this case killing Apache (1 and 2).

To make life easier, as a regular part of my Debian and Ubuntu installs, I now have the command ‘sk’ (superkill) in /usr/sbin/sk;